Mark Freedman

Mark Freedman

@markfreed.bsky.social

Music, Sport (especially football), cats, politics in small doses. Work in a library. No DMs. No Farage, Trump or Corbyn supporters. After being insulted, I will go with Centrist Dad/soft left. And keep away from political morons. Father of an Autistic son

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My apologies to anyone else who’s old enough not to want to be reminded just how fucking long ago it was, but: today is the 41st anniversary of the release of Cloudbusting—so it must be time to tell you about Wilhelm Reich and his orgasmatron...

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Trump’s ex-chief of staff John Kelly said this to me, six years ago: “I don't know how he’s not in an institution somewhere, whether it’s jail or a nuthouse. He’s a seriously sick guy. I never heard him saying anything that wasn’t a lie.” Trump has only gotten worse since.

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Nathan Gill - Reform's leader in Wales - is serving a ten-year prison sentence for accepting Russian bribes. And still Farage insists that that Russia doesn't attempt to influence British politics.

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Hard to devise a better metaphor for the past decade and a half of Premier League football than Man City winning while playing with an extra man.

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Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

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Swedish top division game today. 0-0 at half time. 5-6 at full time. From 5-1 down to getting the equalizer in the 97th. Still lost it in the 99th. Oh and it was a derby.